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It’s June 2014. I’ve just hit 3.5 million reads on Wattpad, a social reading community with over 60 million books and 30 million users. My book, Summoner, which began its journey on Wattpad, is going to be published in Spring 2015.

In the beginning, in my beginning, there was no God. My parents had both rebelled against their religious upbringings and when they got married, they agreed that there was no way any children of theirs would have to endure enforced Sunday school or weekly confession.

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I was born in India, raised in the US and grew up following my father in his UN job that took us around the world. In many respects, my life has been as crazy of an adventure as the journey Charlie, Sadie, Liu, Raquel and Ingela are on in Storm Sisters, my YA series about five girl pirates sailing the high seas in the 1780s.

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Like most stories, Rose in the Blitz is a mixture of things that happened and things that are made up; places where I’ve been and places I’ve only heard about; people I’ve known and people I’ve only met in dreams…

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The triumvirate, or rule of three, has made its mark on historical fiction. Trilogies by Philippa Gregory, Robert Harris and Hilary Mantel (whose third Cromwell novel is eagerly awaited) have attracted an immense following. Yet there is a definite feeling that it has ‘had its day’, and certainly, publishers are reluctant to encourage the less well-known author to write a series of three.